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Yesterday I alerted you to the most recent "Team Experience Poll" over at The Film Experience, wherein we TFE contributors voted upon "Oscars Greatest Losers: Actors Edition." that is, we picked ten individual male performances that were nominated for Best Actor Oscars but lost, which we thought were most meritorious. As always that got tallied up, and a communal selection was born. The final list was pretty different from my own this time around - only three shared choices! Anyway I'm going to share my own personal list here, as I do every month, but I'm a wee bit short on time today so I'm just sharing the names, sans extrapolation. I'll be fine with discussing them in the comments though!
10. William Powell, My Man Godfrey
9. Bill Murray, Lost in Translation
8. Peter Sellers, Being There
7. Montgomery Clift, From Here To Eternity
6. Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
5. Robert DeNiro, Taxi Driver
4. William Holden, Sunset Boulevard
3. Roy Scheider, All That Jazz
2. Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire
1. Jack Lemmon, The Apartment
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3 comments:
Love your choices. Bill Powell! Yay! But curious why Clift in Eternity over A Place in the Sun?
Cuz he's gayer in Eternity? Kidding! But it's always been my fave performance of his, he just breaks my heart in it. I feel like he gets at something a little truer and darker and more personal with that character. Although I totally love him in Place in the Sun too. It's like picking gold from gold! ;)
This kind of thing is so tough with so much quality to choose from. My list only matches two of yours: Clift, I completely agree about your reasons for picking this over his work in A Place in the Sun, and Ledger. I went with Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot over The Apartment. Yea to the inclusion of the two Bills, Powell and Holden, both so great. If the list had been top twenty they would have made my list for that.
Here's my ten chronologically:
Henry Fonda-The Grapes of Wrath
Montgomery Clift-From Here to Eternity
James Mason-A Star Is Born
Jack Lemmon-Some Like It Hot
Spencer Tracy-Inherit the Wind
Peter O'Toole-The Lion in Winter
Al Pacino-Dog Day Afternoon
Dustin Hoffman-Tootsie
Ian McKellan-Gods and Monsters
Heath Ledger-Brokeback Mountain
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